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SecretAgentMan 134

Yes, I am not the only one that has seen the fake Security Essentials windows a few times now when I come to Neowin. It seems like a bad advert in the rotation I am guessing and the link is different each time.

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Roger H. 773

I'm not infected.... pssht :p - I run clean shop over here. It's happened on work PC and my home machine which was formatted to install Windows 8.1 preview. SO it's as clean as a bell. Dunno though, haven't seen it yet today.

Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware, are all I need. If those 2 programs haven't gotten everything, I'll use Malwarebytes anti rootkit, which I'm not even sure is any different that regular Malwarebytes! Usually, either of those first 2 programs get's those baddies.

Not even using an AV now. Have NEVER had one of those bloated programs block/find/remove anything!

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Roger H. 773

Couldn't screenshot it because it goes by too fast as I'm generally not paying attention to the ads either (:p) - I just go neowin.net then go to try click the login button and it starts going all over the place.

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Steven P. 8,560

myftp.biz has been blocked here and at two ad providers that could possibly host such an ad, but it's confusing because we don't even allow popups; the only way we can truly get to the bottom of this is if I know exactly what ads are loaded on the page when the thing pops up.

I don't know if it's the same site as last time but it was the same fake Security Essentials thing.

It's only happened when not logged in so i'm guessing guests haven't been able to report it.

WOW, if MSE detects it just imagine how bad it really is....

Also Sandboxie FTW!

A good time to remind anyone who is reading this to keep their 3rd party applications and operating system up to date. It's more than likely what ever site it's redirecting to probably has an exploit kit.